[Telegraph-UK] Carolynne Wheeler - Hanit Kuchnik's two-year-old son Alon knows to run to the protective room when an alarm sounds. His first words were the Hebrew for "red," learned from the "red alerts," and "boom." Ruti and Kobi Gabbay try to spare their three-year-old son Sarel the trauma of the rockets, each day driving him to a nursery school on a nearby kibbutz, just out of rocket range. At least half of the 20 children in Sarel's nursery class are also from Sderot, and their teacher, Naomi Ohnunu, said the differences among the children are obvious. "The kids from Sderot are more nervous," said Ohnunu, herself a Sderot resident. "They are more easily frightened." The stress is mounting among adults, too. A local trauma center has treated more than 1,000 for psychological problems caused by the attacks in the past month, and nearly everyone complains of insomnia or nightmares, headaches or depression.
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